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October 15, 2013
Reading and Signing Africa is My Home at Bank Street Book Store
I will be doing my first event for Africa is My Home this coming Sunday, October 20th, at 2:30, at the Bank Street Book Store. I’ve been to so many of these over the year, but never as the featured author! Maybe I’ll see some of you there?
October 11, 2013
Help Jonathan Stroud Write a Halloween Story
This looks great fun:
Jonathan Stroud, author of the Bartimaeus trilogy, will be writing an exclusive interactive story for Halloween based on the intrepid ghost hunters from his latest book, Lockwood & Co – but he needs your help!
Go here to help out and see his progress.
October 10, 2013
Poet Lee Bennett Hopkins Does Something Great for Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A world-renowned educator, poet, anthologist and advocate for poetry has arranged to give the Penn State University Libraries his 18,000-volume book collection and correspondence papers from his lifelong career in children’s literature. Lee Bennett Hopkins, a Guinness World Record holder as the most prolific anthologist of children’s poetry, has committed to give Penn State the collection, valued at approximately $3.25 million. The gift will provide Penn State with one...
October 9, 2013
Latest List of Recommended Books To Read
This one comes from the UK, a list of “100 books to read before you’re 14” (also can be seen here) created by Booktrust for Children’s Book Week. They write:
To celebrate Children’s Book Week 2013, we’ve announced our ultimate list of the 100 books to read before you’re 14 – and we’re inviting you to VOTE to help choose the nation’s favourite children’s books.
Details on how they selected the books here.
October 8, 2013
Africa is My Home — Today’s the Day!
Today’s the publication day for Africa is My Home. Hurray! And for those wanting to know more about it (including more primary source images, extensive bibliographies, source notes, teaching suggestions, reviews, and so forth) check out my page for the book.
October 7, 2013
Terrific-Looking New Comic Book
And by comic book I mean a book full of old-fashioned comics, the sort from the Sunday papers. This is Society is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy and the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 18915-1915,the latest from the terrific publisher, Sunday Press Books. This publisher’s books are productions of love — gorgeous and big as they feel strongly that you need to experience the comics in their original broadsheet style. The two I own, Little Nemo in Slumberland and Sammy Sneeze (the comic Winsor McCay did...
October 1, 2013
New Disney Cinderella
Did you know that Disney has a new Cinderella movie in the works? Directed by Kenneth Branagh? With Cate Blanchett as the stepmotherand Helena Bonham Carter as the fairy godmother?Well, I sure didn’t. For many of us Disney’s 1950 animated feature Cinderella epitomizes a certain sort of fairy tale princess, one who waits for her prince to come. Many have railed against these animated princesses (notably Jack Zipes) and Disney has somewhat responded, supplying their more recent princess heroine...
September 28, 2013
Lynda Barry is Again Awesome
If there are stages of grief and steps to recovery, isn’t the act of reading a complicated, evolving thing over time?
Lynda Barry: The 20 Stages of Reading
September 26, 2013
Gary Soto’s Harsh Decision About What He Writes
“Keep cool” became my mantra in December 2005, when the phone rang for the third time and I knew a short message would be left expounding the caller’s disappointment in me. The first two calls had been surprising rants that made my invisible antennas, not unlike the antennas of ants, start vibrating. I, a poet, was suddenly controversial overmy chapter novel Marisol, a 140-page story of a little girl (Marisol) living in Pilsen’s mainly Latino area of Chicago.
That’s Gary Soto’s lead in his dis...
September 25, 2013
Deborah Wiles’ Revolution is on its way!
I was a big fan of Deborah Wiles’ Countdown (my review is here) and have been eagerly awaiting the second in her Sixties Trilogy. So how terrific to read just now her blog post mentioning, among other things, the completion of the new book, Revolution. Deborah writes:
REVOLUTION is the title of book two of the Sixties Trilogy. It takes place in 1964 Mississippi during Freedom Summer. Sunny Fairchild is 12 years old. I can’t wait for you to meet her, and her step-brother, Gillette, his little s...
